Dominican Liberation Party

The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) is a social democratic political party in the Dominican Republic that was founded on 15 December 1973 as a splintergroup of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD). The PLD was originally considerably to the left of the PRD, but it gravitated towards centrism while embracing neoliberal policies away from its communist and Marxist pasts. The party dominated politics after the restoration of democracy in the country, and it held 106/190 Chamber of Deputies seats, 26/32 Senate seats, and 106/155 mayoral seats in 2017.